Cosmos Chronicle

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The dead dolphins were all found in Lake Tefé over the past seven days, according to the Mamirauá Institute, a research facility funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science. The institute said...

The G7 price cap on Russian oil has not been working as well as the West intended with Moscow’s ability to create shadow services for its oil shipments and after the rally in crude prices that brought a barrel near $100, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told reporters. It does point to some reduction in the effectiveness of the price...

Last week’s drip of diplomatic leaks from United States officials led to streams of speculation that a grand bargain is in the works that will create the biggest Middle East peace breakthrough since the 1978 Israel-Egypt Camp David accord. Or is this a public relations gambit to shore up the flagging reputations of three protagonists – US President Joe Biden,...

  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will warn Congress in a speech later Friday morning that a government shutdown would be dangerous and unnecessary because it would undermine the American economy and disrupt key government functions. The comments, shared first with CNN, represent the strongest warning to date from Yellen about the negative consequences of a government shutdown that appears to...

The Ukrainian counteroffensive continues but it appears to be less intense. Ukraine has not made any significant progress so far, and in some cases, its forces have been pushed back. The Russians have published some numbers on Ukrainian losses in September to date. Ukraine has lost more than 17,000 soldiers so far this month, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told a ministry...

Five members of an Arab family were shot dead in their home in Israel, police said on Wednesday, in the latest in a wave of crime-related killings in Israel’s Arab communities that has reached a new peak this year, Reuters reports. The shooting of the five, including a woman and two teenagers, in the northern town of Basmat Tab’un followed...

The Nour-3 space satellite was blasted off into orbit aboard a Qased carrier rocket on Wednesday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will be using its Nour-3 satellite to collect military intelligence, IRGC Chief Hossein Salami has confirmed. Previous satellites in the series were met with mockery and derision from Pentagon officials, but the ridicule soon stopped after Iran showed...

In a demonstration of the Philippines’ growing importance as a strategic front line for major powers, the embassies of Japan and China in Manila engaged in a perhaps unprecedented verbal tussle over the latest developments in the South China Sea. Over the weekend, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko sounded alarm bells over reports alleging widespread environmental damage wrought...

El Al Israel Airlines said, on Thursday, it would add flights to New York in 2024 after the United States agreed to admit Israel into a program that will allow visa-free entry by Israeli citizens, Reuters reports. Starting next June, Israel’s flag carrier will add a daily flight to New York’s JFK Airport that will bring daily flights to JFK...

Vietnam and Israel signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, predicting it would quickly boost annual bilateral trade by nearly 50%, Reuters reports. The agreement was signed in Israel between the two countries’ trade ministers after seven years of negotiations, Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a statement. The agreement is expected to soon bring bilateral trade to $3...

The Israeli Government Press Office reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to change the attitude of the organizations institution towards the State of Israel. If the UN and its institutions were to truly alter their approach in line with international law and human rights, Israel would not recognize itself after the decolonization process. What Netanyahu is...

The Biden administration blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in order to not lose its longstanding primacy in Western Europe, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Exactly a year ago, three of four Nord Stream pipelines, designed to deliver 110 billion cubic meters per year of Russian natural gas to Europe, were destroyed by a series of powerful...

Residents of Ireland and the United Kingdom were bracing on Tuesday for the arrival of Storm Agnes, the region’s first named storm of the season, which is expected to bring 75-mile-per-hour wind gusts and 50-foot-high seas and cause widespread damage. The UK’s Meteorological Office issued a yellow wind weather warning from midday Wednesday through Thursday morning across a wide swath...

The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of Su-34 fighter-bombers of the Central Military District hitting control posts of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Krasnolimansk with guided aerial bombs. The crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers are on combat duty at the airfields around the clock, performing air patrol tasks and covering the actions...

At least 18 people, including 10 security personnel, were killed with more than 40 others wounded in a suicide truck car bombing in central Somalia, police said late Saturday. Police spokesman Sadik Aden Ali Doodishe told the media that a truck full of explosives exploded at a security checkpoint in Beledwayne, killing 18 people, including seven police officers. Fardowso Ahmed, a...

Earlier this week, Morgan Stanley said in a note that all signals for crude all were flashing tightness. The investment bank joined a growing number of forecasters expecting Brent crude to top $100 per barrel before the year's end, again. What all these forecasters have in common is that all of them point out a discrepancy between demand for oil,...

Up to nine out of ten Ukrainian army draftees who joined in the last year have been either killed or wounded in action, a senior conscription officer in the country's Poltava Region said on Friday, according to local media. Only 10-20% of those drafted in Poltava Region last fall are still fighting against Russia, Vitaly Berezhny was quoted as saying? Speaking...

Among the myriad of the Middle East’s post-colonial, post-independence issues, the Kurdish question stands as a perennial one. This is closer to home for the four states which straddle the historic geographic region of Kurdistan, in particular fragile states, Iraq and Syria (ranked 27th and 5th place, respectively on the Fragile States Index), in addition to Iran and Turkiye. Kurdistan’s geographical...

Russian defense sources say that an ATACMS tactical ballistic missile was launched from Kulbakino Air Field in Ukraine. If the Russian report is correct then the Washington debate about sending tactical ATACMS missiles to Ukraine is fake, as they already are there. The Russian report has not been confirmed. What is clear is that the Ukrainians used missiles to attack Sevastopol on September 21st, targeting Russia’s...

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler stressed the need for the Bashar Al-Assad regime to meet several requirements before Turkish forces withdraw from northern Syria. The requirements include the establishment of a new constitution and the holding of democratic elections, in addition to the formation of a government that represents all Syrian sects. In an exclusive interview with Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Guler...

King Abdullah II has warned of excluding Palestinians in any possible peace deals in the region, Jordanian TV channel Al-Mamlaka reported on Friday. According to the Jordanian TV channel, this came during The Middle East Global Summit in New York on Wednesday. Effort is being exerted by the USA to reach a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel that, might lead to...